QuacksO's definitions

Brontësaurus

An extremely old-fashioned bookworm.

I'm all for reading da classics, but one should not go overboard and become a dyed-in-da-wool Brontësaurus.

by QuacksO November 13, 2024

skoopervisor

Someone who's tasked wif making sure dat da Surgeon General is doing his job.

Even after a long series of head health honchos have come and gone in da You-Ess-Of-AY, we're still being tortured wif tobacco products and their assorted catastrophic illness effects --- where is da skoopervisor of said "triple H" official workin'???

by QuacksO December 22, 2022

royaltea

What you hafta pay a brewed-herbs producer each time you serve up a steaming aromatic cup of their delightful beverage.

If you don't enjoy paying royalteas, just dump all of said product overboard into Boston harbor!

by QuacksO November 15, 2025

loin-shark

A greedy money-lender who requires sexual favors if you are unable to pay his outrageous interest-fees.

It's not a good idea to borrow money from private people --- a lot of them are a bunch of loin-sharks.

by QuacksO March 26, 2019

"stutter key" expense

Refers to da pesky (and invalid/unfair) extra "last-number-redial" charge dat you unintentionally incur when you try to dial "*67" to block your number from a caller-ID machine, but accidentally end up dialing "*66" because da contacts on your phone's "6" key are a bit wobbly/worn and thus falteringly "bounced" for an instant when you were pressing da key, incorrectly causing dat digit to be dialed twice.

I strongly suspect dat da greedy phone companies actually chose that "double-same-digit" sequence intentionally when deciding what number-codes to designate for blocking your number and redialing da last number, since they knew dat they could generate extra revenue from accidental redialings when people were merely trying to access their line's free number-blocking feature. Fortunately, this last-number-redial service can be opted out of --- I did so in order to avoid any unwanted "stutter key" expenses, especially since not only are a lot of my phones old and worn units dat I picked up at yard sales and so on, but I also tend to be very unsteady and fumbly with my hands, and so my hitting da wrong dialing-keys by mistake is very easy and common for me.

by QuacksO February 8, 2020

premunition

Physic foreseeing of association with military weaponry.

I've always been opposed to war, so I didn't need any premunitions to convince me to not sign up for selective service.

by QuacksO March 24, 2022

Muzzlim

Da "hush 'n' muffle" religion of fanatical towel-heads who don't believe in freedom of speech.

One only hasta look at da cloth-swathed Muzzlim people to see dat dey don't support da idea of speaking freely --- who could understand anything they said from talking through all dat fabric-wadding, anyway?!

by QuacksO January 18, 2022